On pain, desperation and chiropractors

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Alternative health peddlers get rich exploiting desperate sufferers of intractable ailments or pain, often with disastrous consequences. There are few things more likely to motivate

In Memoriam: Roger David Crawford (10 September 1944 − 19 March 2025)

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Roger Crawford, who has died after a short illness, is remembered as a committed and influential liberal who straddled modern South Africa’s historic watershed, engaging

I could never stop following Steyn …

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I couldn’t even try being impartial when writing about the broadcaster Mark Steyn because he’s all I’ve ever really known. Most impressions I have of

Cutting the fiscal fat

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If words were actions, South Africa would have the sleekest, most efficient government on the planet. Budget speeches and reform proposals promise leaner administration, cost-cutting,

Why SA needs a ground-up policing approach

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When South Africa transitioned to democracy in 1994, the new government adopted community policing as its strategy to combat crime. The theory was sound: a

Cricket’s continuing race madness

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Over the weekend the Dolphins – the Durban-based provincial cricket franchise – won the One-Day Cup, defeating Boland in Paarl by four wickets, reaching the

Answering 13 questions about the Index of Race Law

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The Index of Race Law was launched to little fanfare in December 2022 by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), as the only up-to-date and

A House divided – what now for the budget?

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With the Minister of Finance having delivered the Budget Speech last week and various political parties indicating that they will not support the budget, the

What Rasool said: insights into the ANC mind?

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Ebrahim Rasool, the former South African Ambassador to the US whom the Trump administration kicked out of the country over the weekend, has been thrown

Trevor Noah: was integration a bad idea?

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South African expatriate comedian Trevor Noah set the internet on fire in a recent podcast when he questioned whether “integration was the right move”. “That